>> tonight on "worldfocus" - back home, a two american jonalists freedy north korea enjoy an emotion homecoming, we ask, what did america have to give to get them ack, and why is south korea conceed? in iran, a police confront protesters shoutindeath to the dictator,mahmoud ahmadinej sworin as edent, nearly two months ater his disputed electiontriggered massive unrest. while most of the worlhas moved on from the storf the battle by pakisti troop to oust the taliban fr the swat valley, we check i o the humanitarianrisis it trigged and find it fafrom over. and in a reminder of the people powe she inspired more than two decades ago. te of thoundings of filinos turn now the manila to bid former president corzano keeno farell.

ld's leading reporters and analysts, re is what's hapning from around the world. this is "wldfocus." made possible, ipart, by the foowing funders -- >>good evening, i'm martin savidge. ty had been detained for five months and ced 12 yars in north korean pson camp. buthis morning american journalist laura ling and euna lee we finally backon amican soil. freed after a surised visit to north koreay former presint bill clinton. as ling put it, the two woen wereinally home and free. it's anemotional storyhat's gripped the worldfor the past 24 hour but it'sar more than just a personal tale, aswe explain i our "ad focus" tnight. this is a storyith major diplomatic implications. one that hassome our closest allies a bit uneasy. ladies and gentlemenplease he me inwelcoming home laura ling and euna lee.

>> journists euna lee and laura lingrrived homearlier this morning in burbank, california. their safe return the culmination of a nely five-month oeal. anemotional ling told the crowd,f the moment when they realized they'deen freed. >> we were taken to a location, and when we walked through the doors, weaw stding before us president bi clinton. >> donald kirk is a correspondent for the christian scnce monitor. he's spent t past 12 years based in south korea >> caller: i tnk it's a big deal in t sense that it says so korean relations. the fact that kim jong-i w ad to recei a high-profile american visitor in the fm of bill clint was certaly

interesting. there's hope th perhaps it'll be possible to resume negotiations on one level or another. outside of the united states, reaction was mixed. in nairi at a coference of afrin leaders, secretary of state hillary clton told reporters, she was exced by the news. nonetheless, she reiterated america's hard line regding north korea's nuclear program. >> they have a choice. they can continue to follow a path that is filled with provocative actio, or they can decide toenew thr discussions. >>n south korea, reactn to thnews of the releasef lee and ling was noticeably subdued. north korea currently detained several hundd south koreans. so of whom accidentally styed into north koran teitory. others thought to prisoners from the war of the1950s. >> caller:ar from being encouraged by the fact that these americans were let go, i

think th south korea's posion might be, whyo they let these americans go? ying nothing about us? leaving usut in theold as usual. resing to talk to us. refusing to let ou people -- refusing to let our people go. and so i thi that this might actually be a soce of concern, if not angerongst people in south koa. >> for mo on this, we turn oncegain toharles armstrong, professor of korea studies and directorf the story for kore rearch at colombian university. good to have you back. >> nice to b ck. >> why now? why did the north koreans se do an about-face and suddenly become magnanimo with the news. >> it seems the north koreans have showed the worldhat they wanted tshow that kim jong-il's in chae that h's a tough leader that they have the capacity to produce a nuclear weapon to test their missiles. and at they have to taken serisly. and now kim ng-il is ready to

ke concession and make this magnanimougesture of releasing the two ameran journalists. >>hat do north korea expect to get out of this? know you described it's a go pr campaign. i guess what i'm sin is, is the photo opportunity with preside billlinton unto itself worth leing those journalists go? >> well the importance of photo-op with former president bill clint shouldot be underestimated it's very importt for kim jong-il's image domesticly that he brout this visit to ongyang to meet with him and to show around t world. but we c assume that north korea epects something bond that. that ty are sendi a signal that they may be rea to come into negotiations aga with the u. and move forward and improvingrelations. >> mr. clinton comes home with a wealth of information i mean, the sit-down wh the presidentin north korea tel us a great deal abou him, doesn't it? >> yes, i does.

ere's been a lot speculation out kim jog-il's alth, about his state of mind, but his capacity aa leade and w bill clinton has met with him, had extensive talks, can and c give us a much better sense than we have before of ho kim jo-il is doing. >> and that benefits us in what way,s we moveforwa? >> well, we didn't know whether kim jong-il was rely in charge, or if he w passing on his adership someone else now it seems thate is in control and hs the have to deal with and the regime itself i under his comman and we're going to have to deal with this regime fo theime being. >> who'sourt is the ball in no >> there are a couple of things that will be going on. we can assume. first, there will be negotiatns behind the scenes between obama adnistration official and north koreans about where o from here. and north korea will expect some sort o-- an offer fromhe uned states down the road about what it will expect for north korea to come back to

negoations. >> and ii'm south korea, if i'm japa how do i view allof this? >> wh some concern. south koreans and sme japanese have their own issue which are not the sam that the u.s. has wi north korea. and they're not all that excited and enthusiastic about t u.s. deing with north korea directly without them. butmoving fward, no real substantl change in policyin north korea is going to happen without the u. consulting with its key allies in the region, south korea and japan. >> chaes armstrong, thank you very much. thank you. protters took to the streets, ain today in iran, shouti death to the dictator, as president mahmoud ahmadinejad was sworn for his second term. amateur video posted on e inrnet what was said to be groups of peopleathering near the parliament building in hran, where that inauguration was held, state-run television rerted that 5,000 security forces werdeployed in the ea. witnses claim that police us tear gas and batons to break up the antigovernment rallies

en with ahmadinejad now officially installed a president an's opposition leaders are promisinmore protests. itn's carl dinnereports on today's ceremony and what next for iran'government. >> reporter: mmoud ahmadinejad has tightened s grit on a seco term. he has sworn t oath of office. >> translator: i as the president swear to god befor the holy korannd the iranian nationhat i will protect the official relign, the system of the islamic republ and the countrs constitution. >> reporter: then a faultles embrace withhe head of the iraniajudiciary. maybe they'd been acticing since this embrace with e supreme leader two days ago seemed so ve mal coordinated. today, m ahmadinejad went on to tell the western vernment who hanot congratulated him d that includes britain that iranians dn't care. >> tralator: nobody in iran is waiting for ur congratulations.

the iranian nation does not give importce neither to your friends and threats, not your congratulations an smiles >> repter: but even inside parlment always is not as it emed. many had bcotted the ceremony, incling former presidents mohamad yosef hammoudhatami and akbarrafsjanrafsanjani. mr. ahmadinejas troubles are noover. >> we've got a president of time where he's tryinto build a cabinewith his challengefrom his own conservative size as well as fr the reformist and position camps over the next few wee until he's -- to the cabinet. >> reporter: outsidearliament a few pictures have been smuggled out o riot pole motorbikes but media abanned from filng demonsations. as the ceremony ended, witnees said there we hundreds of protesters outside and at least ten arrests. and theclampdown continue its emerged that spectato will

be banned from football match later this wk to avoid any risk of political unrest. a reminder o the cold war tonight. "the new york times" is reporting tat two ruian nuclear-pored attack submarinesor a rare ssion off the east coastf the united stes. the b's in international miles more than 200 mil offshoe buttill closer to the united ates than at anytime in t past 15 yea. inrdcoto accordinto one defense depament official qted anymously in "th times" any time the russian navy does sothing so outf the ordinary it caused for rry. the.s. navy contues to track th subs,hich they believe are on a surveillance missio > the united stat militar command in afghanistan's

investating a new claim that an r strike killed four vilians this morning. it happenedn a vilge near the city of ndahar in southern afghanista later the bodiesf three boys and a m were brought to kandahar, wherlocal residents called for the deathof those responsible. the crowd was dispersed by police. in neighbong pakistan, mitary officials claim a miile strike killed the wife of one of the taban's top aders today. the missile rike repordly hit aouse in a tow in northwesrn pakistan'slawless tribal region of south wazirian. intelligence officials say one the vtims was the wife of metula bassude. and that brings us to our signate story tonight. the humanitarian crisis in pakistan. we repord extensivy about w the pakistani mility under pressurerom washington has ved aggressily aft the taliban in the at valley, but ce it did, an estimated 2

million people fled tat region to an area known as mardan ovwhelming servic there. de workers from the irish milita group called concerned world wide recently visited the area and documented the very difficult conrns there. they sharedheir vidos and interviews with fe producer yuvol lionho brings us this report. >> rorter: children were bac in class this weeke in pakistan's battled-scarred swat valley we open schools psychologicallimportant step in this religion. the taliban haddestroyed schools, particularl those teaching girls. but attendce was low. of the 2 miion people who had fl swat andheurrounding area when the akistani army moun a military campaign in late april to oust the taliban, only about one-third hve rerned home. the reports frominsidewat indicate thathey are returnin to towns with ectricity and water shortages and where food is scarce. and serity's still a concern in me parts ofwat where the pakistani miliry continues to

fight the taliban. just two weeks ago, richard holbroe, the u.s. special envoy to afghanistan a pakistan, was denied permission to visit the swat capital city of mingo due to security ncerns. the lackf security and rvices are just some o the reasontacmore than a milli refugees have no started too home. a 63-yr-old refugee from swat wasotraumatized by what happenedhere that he's too frightened to return. speak speak [ speaking in native tongue . >> reporter: likhim, most o the refugees a still in the neighboring distri of mardan. the massive influxf refugees doubled mardan's population to 2 miion. >> what we've seen in pakistan in the last few months is we've seen anncredibly rapid

displacement of people. 's unusually rapid even for other places in the world. so in aeally few months almost 2 mlion people that we knowf thatave been verified as being displaced have chosen to leave their homes suenly. >> reporte only about 15% of refugees i mardan were held in mps likethese. they have now returned home and the camp's smantled. butrity of refugees continue to live in cramped conditions withrelatives or host famili or squatting in a few ousand schools in the area. >> six. >> me than . >> 60 people in one hou. one house. >> reporr: some schools have also been used as aid distribution points. coern world wid an iri militaryian organizati came to this schl outside of the toughen mdan lastonth to hand o nonperishable items

likemats, jerry can mquito nets a equipment. >> it comes from the idps,he displaced people. to solve is problem. >> reporter: before the distribution begins, ncerned staffers determi eachbag will receive. and then ech reesentatives gned in and registered as refugee. finally they receiveheir supplies and carefully take testimony back to thr families. thaide group says they have helped more than 3,500 families, close to25,000 people. dorothy bine who is concerned world wide direct norpakistan believes rugees will need help even after th return home. >>we in intnational commity and th government, in particular, hve to provide more otherwise we're jt sending people back to fl. they're gog to be drivenout again by the lack of theseasic services so i think is

absoluly vital that we remain. that our commitment isot just during theime that they're displaced but also during the return. >> reporr: while in mardan, thesrefugees will contue to put a strain on e resources of their host communities. which is w thekistani government isressing for mst of them to head home by the end august. whether ey will actually return to swat,defends on if the refugees belve teir tuation will be better back home. >> for more about all of this, we are joined tonight by dominic csorley. he is th operion's manager of correspondorld wide u.s. a recently reurned from pakistan. thanks for joiningus. how great is thehumanitarian crisis in that area today? this is a hugecrisi i mean on the scale of -- it's been referced to on the sca of rwandjust in terms ofhe numbers of people that have been forced to fleend that have been displed. so 2 million people three nths o fled their hos. some of them overnight. some of th with very, very

littlenotice. and basicall swamped the areas of mardan a dtricts around that. so i termsof crisis, is is big and it's still big. >> but i thought, you know, as many people in this country probablybelieved, people had started returng bck to the swat valley, gag ck home and this, this csis was slow starting to alleviate itelf? we, that's partly tru have gone home about600,000f the 2illion you know have voted with their feat d are heading home nowhere are problems witthat becaus not evyone are actually goin hole. there arstill fighng going on in me of the motainous eas. the challengs going to be, if they do get home cn, they stay? is the fighting real over? the secondhinl is,hey need a lot ofupport. ey need at least six months' support, bause otherwise if they don't get that, they' going hme to fail. >> but judge by the numbers tha you just gve there, there's still the jority ofeople who had not returnd. so what struck you mosty what you w when you were thre? >> well,you know, the teresting thing about th

emerncy is that it sn'teen that physical. and i's part othe reason is because 90% of theopulation you kw didn't e up in large refue centers or nts 200,0, 300,000 did. th majority ofhem went into homesp homes of friends or hos of ratives. now i t a man -- an you think wellmaybe that's good. well, i met a ma a teacher and his wie. they weren't well off. they had a two-bedroom hose. and th had taken in 54 people. most of them frids relaves. that's 64 pele living in a two-bedrm house with one bathroom. and had already used up all of his savings in the first month to try to support these peop because these are tradition pastune. they are basically guests. and this was repeat house after housefter house. it was an enormous, enormous overwhelming problem othe communit >> what'sbeen te international sponse here to this refugee crisis >> i think insufficient is really the word. the u.n. had anppeal outor

$540 million, and that's really just to cort basics. we are not talking abo plastic sheeting, wee talking about pots andpans. nothing luxuous here. wh i there was i was deciding we had 500 blankes. the ere are a,0 people there,ho do we give them do? we ran out of funding and that's why we are forced to make thos cisions and those are n good decisions to be making. i don't want to runut of time before i askou for people who are listening, what ca they do if they want to help? >> i think that people needo stay informed. this is not over and this is not gog to be over for some time and i think thatwe absolutely have to stay informed and we e dependen as everybody is on -- from the coributions and that needto start, otherse we're leaving these people in t lerch. >> dominic msorley, thank you very much for speaking with anfor your work. >>hank you very much, martin.

tens of thousan filipinos turned out todayin manila for e funeral of wh they call the mother of democracy, aquino. aquino ledhe people democracy in the 1980s and was president of the philippines forix years. al jazeera english reporter veronica pedroza has the story of the funals. and whathe story of politics means in the filnce. >> of the faernd of the sign and of theoly spirit. >> reporter: requi for the woman o personified in the phippines. her family refused to stake fural but this was afar from prate affair. how could it be be otherwise for the unassuming widow who endup leading a nnviolent th century versn of the storming of the bastea now known as people power. aquino had a very persona appeal. everyone callser ta or

au corrie. people here to be anightein their grief. but truth is that the feral and wake are also exposg he risk whin the politicaelite and society itself. this wake is thebackdrop for a political dramaecausequino waalso the matron of a politica dynasty. ttle lines are being drawn. the philippine's only mont away from election so it's me news that the aquino familywere apparently hosti to the current president or royal atnding the proceengs. muslims in mani are joining in thcapital's grf. this lady says shehinks aquo did many good things, the christians and muslims ali and in uniting them. >> i belve in g, the fatter -- >> reporter: in h later ars, mr aquino carved o a role r herself as guardian of he spirit of ople power. she spoke out agnst attempts two presidents includg a royal to extend their terms

through constitutional change. together, th the catholic churchshe once again tried to organize massdemonstrations. now that shs gone, it's not likely thatanyone else will be able to legitimize anymore surprisings on manil treats. aquino's funeral has evived memori of the philippine's shining moment and it could also set theone for pottially divisive political future. veroni pedroza, ajazeera, manila. >>hequino funeralrew comments from blgers throughouthe world today. in o "blogwatch" tonight a personal view from iene seroi if t philippines. "i cried buckets when corrie died and while watchinghe requm mass i wa sad of th passing of an aming woman who sacrificed a lot to bring bac democracy and freedom this country. sh has given ushesemazing gifts which we are enying now and i feel like i've lost someone very clo to me."

arnd the world economy's now fall and rise, almost i unison, anjust as recession spre from country to cotry, as this begin to improve, sotions are now spading. we've fit brought you the story of cash for clunke, rebates for buyers of new fuel-efficient cs who turned in their old models from germany and britain. thprogram's now willy suessful here in the united states. tonight we have word that e australians are catching clunk fever. nicole chiddel of abaustralia s the ory. >> reporte deals on wheels, cash for clunkers ha buyers racing to showrooms- >> reporter: it's the billion-dollar programhat's reved the ailing u.s car indust. unpredented demand set the

cash registers nging. >> it'worth preserving businesses in a imulus like th would wor nders for -- this county. >> the iea to pay buyers to trade in the old car f a re, fuel-efficient models. >> they will recycle your ride and get you rebate of up to $4,500. >> repter: ford says the offer's turned ound its sales decline. supporters say it means lss pollution, betteon road safety, d puts a new car republicaneach of low-income earners. similar programs have driven up car sales in europe. buthe federal government says the big wheel is there where the makers with imported car, not locally-mademodel, d it's not convinced that a cash for clunkers-style pgram here is thbest way to support local manufacturers. the governmens already offering generousrebates for business buying new rs, t the mor tders association says that's inly fleet sales nerating precious litt

profit. it says, dealers deserve a better eal. >> the deale in profitable terms arestill in a very, very difficulsituation. and those jobs in that industry are very fragile. >> reporte recycls would also benef old clunke go to thgrave. and the industry says it'll not only boost scrap metalexports butive australia the cnce to kickstart producti at home. >> we ed make sre that we salvage them, get theest value out of those salvages and that we reuse those material wherever obviously in our own nati. >> reporter: u. at least is ridinghe wave. it also incentive for another $2illion to kp the scheme on the road. nickel chiddel, abc news. >> and that's "worfocus" for a wednday night. a minder, visit our website at worldfocus.org. i'm martin savidgef neyork. as aays, thank you very much for joining us. we'll look for you back hre again tomorr and anytime on

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